Churchill Hotel, Ambleside

Even before you arrive at the hotel, you discover you can't fit down the steep alleyway to the 'car park', which has a severe lack of room and is virtually inaccessible by anything but a bicycle, even if you can squeeze through by folding the wing mirrors in, you have to inconvenience local traffic by having to turn several times to get in the gap. Upon entering the hotel (at the time of my trip, this was done by dodging scaffolding which was not ...
...enter a disgustingly smokey pub, only to have to queue behind drinkers at the bar to be checked in, and you find yourself having to shout over the lager louts, loud music, and the football match on the large projector to be heard by the staff. There is no real check in area and payment for the room was made in the dining area, with no opportunity to get out of the smoke and away from the din. After this shambles, the person at check-in told us ...

led_zeppelin_88 28.02.2007 · Read full review
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